Word: worker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...discourage students from taking less food since they were now making several trips to the servery, Kaplan said. But Quincy resident Lindsey E. Scherf ’08 said the initiative promoted eco-friendly habits and inspired her to eat trayless more often. Several dining hall staff workers also said they were in favor of the initiative. Mike L. Charles, a Quincy dining hall staff worker, said that no trays means not only less food, but also less work. Trayless Thursdays provided the dining hall staff with “a little break from these busy nights...
...some black-helicopter types in its rugged Northeast Kingdom. But thinking of Vermont as a northeastern version of Idaho or Nebraska because it's got rifles and cows is sort of like thinking of the Village People as tough guys because they had a cop and a construction worker. It's a land of teddy bears, organic cheese, planning charrettes, Buddhist converts and the Vermont Progressive Party, whose members include six state legislators, Burlington's mayor, and the only announced challenger to Governor Douglas. Most telling is the fact that it's the only state where self-identified liberals outnumber...
...morning of June 2, 2006, Ahmad Mudakir, a 33-year-old factory worker from Porong, a sleepy district in eastern Java, was in his front yard tinkering with his motorbike. A little after 8 a.m. he felt a rumbling in the ground - worrying, but not wholly unexpected in this seismically fitful corner of Indonesia. What happened next was anything but expected. Mudakir watched as a neighbor, who had been inside eating breakfast, came tumbling into the street. "There was an explosion," Mudakir recalls. "Then the mud started to flow." He gaped in amazement as a geyser of scalding sludge shot...
...Abdul Aziz, 42, is likewise skeptical of gay marriage, and the ease with which many native Spaniards jettison the traditional family unit. "There are so many people not married, with no children. For me, this is not life. Life should be a mother, father, children," says the unemployed construction worker and father of two. He says Islam is a regular part of his life, even as he becomes more and more Catalan: "It helps to preserve the traditions. It is not a good thing if you lose roots. Religion remains a constant through the changes of history...
...there is a sense this year that the slow-motion depreciation of the American middle class has reached critical mass, and not just in Ohio and Michigan. It is an issue that reaches across party lines, which is why John McCain talks about the need to help displaced workers. "This income gap is the biggest issue for me," Bob Currens, a Republican painting contractor who was thinking about voting Democratic-for Obama-for the first time, told me after the church service. His wife Kim joined us and said Bob had been a salaried worker at AK Steel...